Campbeltown, Main Street, Old Post Office
Post Office (19th Century), Tenement (19th Century)
Site Name Campbeltown, Main Street, Old Post Office
Classification Post Office (19th Century), Tenement (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Argyll Street
Canmore ID 178817
Site Number NR72SW 172
NGR NR 71916 20318
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/178817
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Campbeltown
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
2-storey, 5-bay tenement with former post office accommodation at ground floor on corner site. Ashlar ground floor, smooth cement render at 1st floor, lined at Argyll Street elevation, all painted. Base course, band course at 1st floor, eaves cornice. Raised margins with projecting cills at 1st floor and margins at corners. 6-pane timber windows at ground floor, 12-pane timber sash and case at 1st floor. 4-panel, 2-leaf timber entrance door with plate glass rectangular fanlight surviving at outer left and right of Main Street and Argyll Street elevations respectively. Grey slate roof including rear additions, cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Cement rendered, coped and painted apex stacks with circular cans, 7-flue centring ridge and 4-flue at gable. Coped and stepped yard wall projecting to right from Argyll Street elevation. Entrance door at outer left with 4-panel, 2-leaf timber doors and raised margin around. 6-pane window adjacent to right, projecting cill and lintel. 2-leaf, vertically boarded gates with iron spikes to right.
On corner site with Argyll Street. This building is an important survivor of the type of building that used to line Main Street. (Historic Scotland)
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